Project: Icons

With Icons, my hope is to create a space for reflection. Four large wall size projections show the faces of men who are both individuals and icons: people personally affected by the struggles in Iraq, and archetypes of conflict. Using visual cues from religious spaces, these projections create a space where the viewer can begin to take in the enormity of the confrontation that has happened far away from us. It is a place to contemplate questions and responsibility; oppositions and sympathies. Outside of the main space, viewers interact with the context that frames the internal space: hearing the stories of two veterans of the Iraq War, and two Iraqi Labor Movement leaders.

Icons is a series of art works that has grown out of interviews with US veterans of the Iraq war, and Iraqi citizens, recorded over the past three years. The installation at Hall Space in June of 2012 will consist of large charcoal portraits, and digital collages and animations (for projection) developed from these drawings.